HELP!!!!!

Ok, I need advice very very quickly...There is something wrong with my garden, there are large cracks up and down my soil and grass, I water the garden regularly so they are not due to dehydration, I have tried to fill up the cracks with water from the hose to see how deep it was but the cracks never filled up. I am rather worried about this. I am a UK resident...And advice?

I've often seen ground like that in dry spells when out walking in the countryside. I wouldn't worry about it, just when ground gets as dry as that it takes an awful lot of water to rehydrate it (will happen naturally as soon as we get some wet weather of course), especially if it's a patch which normally holds moisture well.

As said above if you're really worried check the deeds but it's likely to just be this long dry spell.

As a child growing up on a farm in the countryside, cracks like those in the soil were commonplace in a dry summer. Absolutely nothing to worry about unless your home is built on the edge of a cliff or similar.

The problem is we've not had a properly dry summer for so long, there's a generation of people who've never seen this.

I get cracks like that in areas of our garden, more this year than last as we haven't had rain. We also have clay soil. The areas that don't do it are ones where we had a skip and dug loads of clay out.

We ended up spiking the whole lawn with one of those things that takes the plugs of earth out. We top dressed with sharp sand, compost, grass seed and a light loam and filled the holes in as we were going.